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A	Marisa Acocella Marchetto	is a writer and illustrator. She has worked as a cartoonist for the New Yorker, New York Times and Glamour magazine amongst others. She is the author of graphic novel Just Who the Hell is She, Anyway? and Cancer Vixen, a graphic memoir published by Harper Collins. view articles
	John Adamson	is a Fellow in History at Cambridge University. His study of the beginnings of the English Civil War, The Noble Revolt: the Overthrow of Charles I, is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
	Simon Akam	read English at Oxford where he edited the Oxford Student, interned with the BBC in East Africa, and was shortlisted for a Guardian Student Media Award. He is currently based in Cairo, and has also written for the Financial Times, the New Statesman, and Tatler. view articles
	Tariq Ali	is an historian, polemicist and the longstanding editor of the New Left Review. His latest book is Pirates of the Carribean: Axis of Hope (Verso). Other books and essays can be found on tariqali.org He lives in London. view articles
	Roger Alton	is the newly-appointed editor of the Independent. He also edited the Observer for 10 years. view articles
	Ian Anderson	is technical director of The First Post. He previously ran an independent web agency for eight years, whose clients included Cahoot and Baxters. He has written for digital media magazines Create Online, Computer Arts and Digit.
	Andrew Anthony	is a feature writer for the Observer. Last year he published a controversial polemical memoir The Fallout: How a Guilty Liberal Lost his Innocence. He lives in London. view articles
	Marc Appleman	has written on sport for the Los Angeles Times and Sports Illustrated for Kids. He has worked for Nobok Sports, ESPN.com, AOL and Fox Sports.com. His book Dad, Are You Pumped? A Father-Son Baseball Odyssey is published by iUniverse. view articles
	Henrietta Ashby	graduated from Liverpool University in 2004 with a degree in English Literature and History of Art. In 2005 she spent two months working on reconstruction in Sri Lanka. view articles
	Iason Athanasiadis	is a British-Greek writer, photographer and film-maker based in Tehran. He has spent ten years covering the Middle East for many newspapers including the Asia Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian. He is fluent in Arabic and Farsi. www.iason.ws view articles
	Diana Athill	lives in London and Norfolk. After reading English at Oxford she joined Andre Deutsch's publishing firm, where she continued for the next 50 years as editorial director. Her own books are Instead of a Letter, Don't Look At Me Like That, After a Funeral, and Make Believe, and Stet (about being an editor), Yesterday Morning (about her childhood) and Somewhere Towards the End (about being old). view articles
	Scott Atran	a specialist in Islamist groups, teaches at the University of Michigan. A full version of his interview with Abu Bakar Bashir appears on the website of the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation. view articles
	Tim Auld	is a writer and editor on The Sunday Telegraph. He has reviewed books and drama for The Times Literary Supplement, and has a DPhil in modern British theatre. view articles
B	Robert Baer	was a CIA case officer in the Directorate of Operations from 1976 to 1997, where he served in Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq and Lebanon. He is the author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism (Crown Publishers, 2002). Baer's life story was depicted by George Clooney in the 2005 film Syriana. view articles
	Rob Bagchi	is a freelance sportswriter who works on the sports desk of The Guardian. He is the author of two football books, The Unforgiven and True Grit. His third book will be published next year. view articles
	Anila Baig	is a features writer and columnist for The Sun. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Press Gazette Columnist of 2004. Last year she was nominated for a Great Britons Award and presented a documentary for Channel 4. view articles
	Ray Baker	who collaborates on the Downings cartoon, is a scriptwriter and former political journalist.
	Annalisa Barbieri	has written for the Evening Standard, The Independent on Sunday, the New Statesman and The Guardian. She has been a fishing correspondent, a fashion journalist and seamstress to the Queen Mother. Dear Annie, A No-Nonsense Guide to Getting Dressed was published by Faber in 1998. She is co-founder of the progressive parenting website www.iwantmymum.com. view articles
	James Bartholomew	is a freelance journalist and author of the controversial book The Welfare State We're In www.thewelfarestatewerein.com. He trained as a banker first before moving into journalism. His previous books were The Richest Man in the World – the Sultan of Brunei and Yew and Non-Yew. view articles
	Laura Barton	is a feature writer for The Guardian. She lives in London. view articles
	Sandra Barwick	has worked in Fleet Street for 30 years on a number of papers and magazines including the Daily Mail, The Independent and The Spectator.
	Richard Bath	is senior features writer at Scotland on Sunday. He is a former Scottish Sports Journalist of the Year who has written six books, all about sport. view articles
	Stephen Bayley	is a leading writer and commentator on design. He oversaw the creation of London’s Design Museum and was briefly creative director of the Millennium Dome. His books include Taste and Sex, Drink and Fast Cars. His next book is about how to design yourself. view articles
	Emily Bearn	is a journalist and lives in London. For the last seven years she has been a feature writer on the The Sunday Telegraph. Before that, she worked as a reporter on The Times diary and as a feature writer on Harpers & Queen magazine.
	Rachel Bell	is a freelance journalist and editor, writing for the The Guardian, Fawcett Society magazine and The Big Issue. She has written a careers book for teenage girls. view articles
	Susan Bell	is a freelance journalist based in Paris. A former correspondent for The Times, she now writes regularly for The Scotsman and has also written for The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Wallpaper and Marie Claire*. view articles
	Ronan Bennett	is the author of five novels. His screenplays include Public Enemies, written for director Michael Mann, now filming in Chicago with Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard; and 10 Days to War, a series of short films to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, which was broadcast on BBC2. view articles
	Jessica Berens	is the author of two novels Queen of the Witches and The Highwayman and has edited a book of feminist essays entitled Inappropriate Behaviour. Based in London as a writer, she also organises campaigns for RAPt (the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust) which takes the 12 step drug treatment programme into UK prisons. view articles
	Lucy Beresford	is a writer, broadcaster and psychotherapist. She has written about mental health issues for The Times, The Spectator and Psychologies magazine. Her first novel, Something I'm Not, will be published by Duckworth.
	Don Berry	worked in Fleet Street for 35 years during which time he was news managing editor at The Sunday Times, news deputy editor at The Daily Telegraph and associate editor at the Evening Standard. view articles
	Isabel Berwick	is a personal finance writer at the Financial Times and a frequent broadcaster on money matters. view articles
	Judi Bevan	is a financial journalist, writer and broadcaster. Her work appears in the Spectator and the Independent on Sunday. She is the author of two books, The Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer and How it Rose Again and Trolley Wars, a history of British supermarkets since 1950. view articles
	Gautaman Bhaskaran	is a film critic and writer. He worked has for India's two best regarded English-language dailies, The Statesman in Calcutta and The Hindu in Madras. His biography of India's auteur-director, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, is to be published by Penguin. view articles
	Anne Billson	is a film critic, photographer and writer. Her books include two horror novels, Suckers and Stiff Lips and a BFI Modern Classics monograph on John Carpenter's film The Thing. Her new book Buffy the Vampire Slayer is published by BFI Publishing. She lives in Paris. view articles
	John Bird	is a satirist, actor and script writer. He has appeared in numerous television productions including That Was The Week That Was, Jabberwocky, Yes, Prime Minister and Absolute Power. He is best known for his work on Bremner, Bird and Fortune. view articles
	Patrick Bishop	was a foreign correspondent for 25 years. He is the author of the best-selling Fighter Boys, Bomber Boys and 3 Para. His novel A Good War is published this May by Hodder & Stoughton. view articles
	Crispin Black	is a former Welsh Guards lieutenant colonel and intelligence analyst for the British government's Joint Intelligence Committee. His book, 7-7: What Went Wrong, was one of the first to be published after the London bombings in July 2005.
	Mark Blacklock	is a self-employed writer who has worked for C4, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Bizarre and Fortean Times.
	Antonia Bland	is an actress and writer who lives in New York City and London. Flying in the Hours of Darkness is her first novel. view articles
	Phillip Blond	is an academic, writer and journalist. He is a senior lecturer in theology and philosophy at the University of Cumbria. He writes for the International Herald Tribune and is frequently on the radio. view articles
	Chris Boffey	is a former assistant editor of The Sunday Telegraph and has been news editor of both the Daily and Sunday Mirror. He was special adviser to Estelle Morris when she was Education Secretary. view articles
	Mihir Bose	is sports editor at BBC News, appearing regularly on BBC News at Ten. He has been a business journalist for The Sunday Times and, since 1995, sports columnist for The Daily Telegraph. He is the author of Bollywood: A History, published by Tempus Books. view articles
	Colin Bostock-Smith	worked at the Evening Standard and edited rock magazine Rave before devoting himself to television comedy. He wrote gags and scripts for almost every major comedian of the past 30 years, including the Two Ronnies, Rowan Atkinson, the Not the Nine O'Clock News team and Clive James. He then spent three years in Zambia, making local television comedies and writing about Zambian politics for The Spectator. view articles
	Chris Bowlby	is a regular presenter on BBC radio specialising in history, science and European affairs. He was the BBC correspondent in Prague during the division of Czechoslovakia, and has also worked on the research staff of the House of Commons. view articles
	Alex Bowler	works as assistant editor at Jonathan Cape. He lives in London. view articles
	Rosie Boycott	is the co-founder of Spare Rib, the feminist magazine, and a former editor of the Independent on Sunday, the Independent, the Daily Express and Esquire. A Trustee of the Hay Literary Festival and the current chair of the Samuel Johnson prize, she also writes and broadcasts frequently. Her latest book - Our Farm: A Year in the Life of a Small Farm - reflects another of her passions, farming. She lives in London and Somerset. view articles
	Rowen Bradley	web developer, is a D&AD award winning graphic designer who has produced work for high profile clients such as Honda F1, Rolls Royce, Porsche, British Airways, Betfair and many more.
	Andy Brassell	has written for Champions, When Saturday Comes and portugoal.net, and is European football expert on BBC Five Live's Up All Night football phone-in. His book All Or Nothing; a season in the life of the Champions League was published in 2006. www.allornothingbook.com
	Christopher Bray	is a film critic for The First Post. He also writes on books, music and movies for The Sunday Times, New Statesman, New York Observer and Word. His critical biography of Michael Caine has been published by Faber. view articles
	Peter Briffa	is a playwright and screenwriter who lives in East London. He has written for The Times, and the liberal think-tank Civitas. He blogs at www.publicinterest.co.uk. view articles
	Nadia Brooks	was a showbusiness columnist for the People and Daily Star. She is now freelance and writes for a variety of newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and The Sun. view articles
	Richard Brooks	writes for Private Eye magazine, mostly for the In the Back pages, on government and financial stories. In 2006 he co-authored Plundering the Public Sector, a book about how consultants rip-off the taxpayer. view articles
	Andrew Brown	is a writer and broadcaster with a special interest in science, religion, fishing and computers. His books include The Darwin Wars and In the Beginning Was the Worm. view articles
	Ismene Brown	was a musician and political journalist before becoming The Daily Telegraph's dance critic in 1994. She is a frequent contributor to the BBC. view articles
	Neal Brown	has written about art for most UK and many international art magazines, including frieze and Parkett. He is the author of numerous catalogue essays and his book Tracey Emin was published by Tate Publishing in 2006. view articles
	Mark Brutton	is a design writer and copywriter who moved from London to the south of France with his wife and two children in 2003. view articles
	Ivan Bulloch	is The First Post's design director. He has worked in New York for Conde Nast and Rolling Stone magazine. In London he has been an art director on The Sunday Times and worked for Redwood Publishing, The Daily Telegraph, Express Newspapers and IPC.
	Peter Burden	is the author of Rags, a novel based on his experiences in the fashion industry, and News of the world? Fake Sheikhs and Royal Trappings, an account of how the paper finds its stories. He blogs at www.peterburden.net view articles
	Jason Burke	is a foreign correspondent at The Observer. In 15 years of journalism, he has covered scores of conflicts. He is the author of a best-selling book on al-Qaeda and most recently On the Road to Kandahar, published by Penguin. view articles
	Richard Burletson	is a London-based businessman with interests in property and security.
	Thabo Buthelezi	is the pseudonym of a journalist working in Zimbabwe. view articles
	Sholto Byrnes	is a contributing editor of the New Statesman and jazz critic of The Independent. Formerly diary editor, interviewer and senior feature writer on both Independent titles, he has also worked at the Evening Standard and The Sunday Telegraph. He is a judge for this year’s Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Composers. view articles
	Howard Byrom	has written for the The Times, The Independent, Evening Standard and the Idler and provides content for Discovery Channel, BBC and Channel 4 websites. He lives in Morecambe. view articles
C	Richard Cabut	has written on popular culture for the BBC, The Telegraph, The Guardian and NME, under the pen name Richard North. His fiction includes The Edgier Waters compilation, published by Snowbooks. He played in the punk rock band Brigandage. view articles
	Frances Cairncross	is Rector of Exeter College, Oxford University. She was on the staff of the The Economist for 20 years. She is the author of Costing the Earth: The Challenge for Governments, the Opportunities for Business and of Green, Inc: a Guide to Business and the Environment. She chairs the Economic and Social Research Council. view articles
	David Cairns	is a freelance journalist from Edinburgh who recently spent nine months in Somalia and Kenya teaching journalism. view articles
	Georgia Cameron-Clarke	has worked at The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph, writing about technology during the days of the dotcom boom. She then joined the Industry Standard. She is now a freelance writer. view articles
	Duncan Campbell	is a senior correspondent at The Guardian, where he has also been crime correspondent and Los Angeles correspondent. He is the author of That Was Business, This Is Personal, The Underworld and The Paradise Trail. view articles
	Louise Campbell	is a graphic designer for The First Post. She previously worked at Liberty of London and the Body Shop. She is also founder and manager of cult designer jewellery store www.loulasboutique.com.
	Matthew Carr	is a writer and broadcaster based in Derbyshire. He has reported on the Mafia wars in Sicily, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and human rights abuses in Central America. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir My Father's House (Penguin), about his childhood in the Caribbean, and Unknown Soldiers: How Terrorism Transformed the Modern World (Profile Books). view articles
	Tim Carroll	is a contributor to the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times, and the author of two books In Hitler's Bunker and The Great Escapers. He is currently working on a book about Germans who fought for Britain in the war.
	Caroline Carter	is a pseudonym for a north London charity worker. view articles
	Henry Castiglione	is a London-based publisher and freelance journalist. He contributes to The Daily Telegraph and numerous websites. view articles
	Aditya Chakrabortty	is a producer on the BBC's Newsnight programme. He also writes for the Financial Times, New Statesman and FT Magazine. view articles
	Alexander Chancellor	is a former editor of the Spectator and now a columnist for The Guardian. He has been Reuters bureau chief in Italy, Washington correspondent of The Independent, deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph and editor of the Talk of the Town section of the New Yorker magazine. view articles
	Clancy Chassay	is a freelance journalist based in Beirut. He has contributed to The Guardian, The Economist, The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph. view articles
	Robert Chesshyre	is a journalist and author. Former US correspondent of The Observer and author of The Return of a Native Reporter and The Force: Inside the Police, he writes for The Daily Telegraph Magazine and New Statesman. view articles
	Linton Chiswick	combines feature writing for the The Times and Financial Times with screenwriting for the big screen and broadcasting on BBC Radio 3. www.lintonchiswick.org view articles
	Neil Clark	is a writer, journalist and broadcaster and a regular contributor to newspapers and journals at home and abroad, including The Guardian, New Statesman and The Observer. His work has appeared in publications as diverse as The American Conservative and Pravda. He also tutors students in International Relations, International Business Management, Politics and History at Oxford Tutorial College and for CAPA (Center for Academic Programs Abroad). view articles
	Pete Clark	is a senior feature writer for the Evening Standard and has written extensively on television, sports, music and culture. He was the pop correspondent for the Mail On Sunday between 1994 and 1996. view articles
	Ross Clark	is a freelance journalist and columnist on The Spectator, The Times and The Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of The Great Before, a satire on the anti-globalisation movement, and How to Label a Goat: The Silly Rules and Regulations that are Strangling Britain, published by Harriman House, about the lunacy of red tape. view articles
	Zsuzanna Clark	was born and brought up in Hungary and came to Britain in 1999. She has written for The Guardian and New Statesman.
	James Clasper	is a freelance writer and editor based in London. A former lawyer in New York City, he has written about film, politics and law for The Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Little White Lies, Filmmaker Magazine and the Liberal. view articles
	Nicholas Clee	is a journalist specialising in the book industry and a reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and New Statesman. He is a former editor of the Bookseller. His cookbook, Don't Sweat the Aubergine, is published by Short Books. view articles
	Tom Cock	is an undergraduate at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in the engineering department. view articles
	Alexander Cockburn	coedits the political newsletter and website www.counterpunch.org and is a regular columnist for the Nation, also for many newspapers and magazines. Among his books he has coauthored (with Jeffrey St Clair) Whiteout, the CIA, Drugs and the Press, also Corruptions of Empire and The Golden Age is In Us (about the Reagan, Bush and Clinton years). End Times - the Decline and Fall of the Fourth Estate is published by CounterPunch. He lives in northern California. view articles
	Andrew Cockburn	writes from Washington DC on defence and foreign affairs. His latest book is Rumsfeld: An American Disaster (Verso, 2007). view articles
	Patrick Cockburn	has covered the Middle East since 1975. Frequently in Baghdad, he is Iraq correspondent for The Independent. He previously worked for the Financial Times for twelve years mostly in the Middle East. He wrote extensively about Iran at the time of the fall of the Shah. He is the author of several books including Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession and Broken Boy, a memoir of his childhood. view articles
	Matthew Collin	is the BBC Caucasus correspondent, based in Tbilisi, Georgia. He has also been the editor of The Big Issue, the Time Out website and i-D magazine. He is the author of two books, This is Serbia Calling, about resistance to the government of Slobodan Milosevic, and Altered State, about drugs and dance culture in Britain. view articles
	Tim Collins	soldier, author, columnist, broadcaster and commentator, he served with the British Army, including eight years as an officer in the elite Special Air Service. Since leaving the Army his memoirs, Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict, have been published by Headline. view articles
	Patrick Collister	has worked in advertising for 25 years. He was the executive creative director and vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather for seven years and the executive creative director of the EHS Brann group. As a copywriter, among other awards, he has a Gold from Cannes. view articles
	Marie Colvin	is an award-winning foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times. As well as covering the Middle East for more than 20 years, she has reported from East Timor, Chechnya, Kosovo and Sri Lanka where she was wounded in an ambush. She lives in London view articles
	Alan Connock	is a technology expert who broadcasts and writes regularly across all sections of the British media. view articles
	Stephanie Coontz	is a Professor of History and Family Studies at the Evergreen State college, in Olympia, Washington. She is the author of Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage, published by Viking Press.
	David Copperfield	is a policeman serving in an inner city police force. The fee for this column is paid to UKCops www.ukcops.org, a charity that looks after surviors of police tragedies. view articles
	Richard Cork	is art critic of the New Statesman, a well-known broadcaster and prize-winning author. He is the author of four books on modern art, including Art Beyond the Gallery in Early Twentieth-Century England and David Bomberg, published by Yale. view articles
	Michael Coveney	is a theatre critic whose career includes long stints on the Financial Times, The Observer and Daily Mail, and the editorship of Plays and Players. He has written books about Maggie Smith, Mike Leigh and Andrew Lloyd Webber. view articles
	David Cox	is a writer and TV producer. He has contributed to the Guardian, Times, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Observer, Sunday Times, New Statesman and Prospect. Programmes he has produced include Nation, War in the Gulf, Walden on Heroes and Weekend World. view articles
	Simon Cox	presents his own current affairs series The Investigation on BBC Radio 4. He is also a reporter for BBC Radio Current Affairs and works as a troubleshooter and journalist trainer around the world. He has also been a reporter for BBC radio and TV news. view articles
	Dan Coxon	is a freelance journalist and writer based in Edinburgh. He contributes regularly to Is This Music? and Disorder Magazine, although his work has appeared in a variety of publications, from Endeavour to the Scottish Cricketer. He is also the author of the Wee Book Of Scotland. view articles
	David Craig	has spent about 20 years working as a consultant in business and public services. He is the author of Squandered: How Gordon Brown is wasting over one trillion pounds of our money (Constable 2008). In June 2008 he announced his candidacy in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election. view articles
	Peter Craven	is a journalist based in Melbourne. He was the founding editor of Quarterly Essay and the Australian Best of annuals (Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Stories, Best Australian Poems). His work appears regularly in The Melbourne Age, The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald. He was an editor at Scripsi, the respected Melbourne literary journal, which flourished between 1981 and 1994.
	David Cromwell	is Media Lens co-editor and co-author with David Edwards of Guardians of Power - The Myth Of The Liberal Media. His book Private Planet is published by Jon Carpenter. He is a researcher in ocean circulation at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
D	Matthew D'Ancona	has been Editor of The Spectator since February 2006 and is political columnist for The Sunday Telegraph and GQ. He was named Political Journalist of the Year in 2006 by the Political Studies Association. He is the author of two books on early Christian theology and two novels.
	Theodore Dalrymple	worked as a consultant in the NHS and Prison Service, and wrote a column in The Spectator for 14 years. view articles
	Guy Dammann	is a research associate at the Institute of Musical Research. He lectures on classical music and philosophy, writing on these and other subjects for the Guardian, New Statesman and other publications. He is currently at work on a book about the meaning of beauty. view articles
	Anthony Daniels	is a doctor who has worked on four continents. His books include The Wilder Shores of Marx, Sweet Waist of America, Monrovia Mon Amour, Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy and In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas view articles
	George Davies	is a freelance business journalist working in Central America. view articles
	Sally Davies	worked as a teacher in Sudan. She now lives in London. view articles
	Nick Davies	has been named Journalist of the Year and Reporter of the Year for his investigations into crime, drugs, poverty and other social issues. He writes regularly for the Guardian and also makes TV documentaries. His books include White Lies (about a racist miscarriage of justice in Texas), Dark Heart (about poverty in Britain) and Flat Earth News (an expose of 'falsehood, distortion and propaganda' in the global media) view articles
	Edward de Bono	is a psychologist and author, best known for introducing the term ‘lateral thinking’ to the English language. Corporations such as Coca-Cola have applied his ideas to business structuring. view articles
	Claire de Jong	is an artist who lives and works in the East End of London. Her most recent project involves painting on photographic material.
	Alex de Waal	was an advisor to the African Union team at the Darfur peace talks in Abuja in May 2005. He is a programme director at the Social Science Research Council, a director of Justice Africa and co-author with Julie Flint of Darfur: a short history of a long war (Zed 2005). view articles
	Johnny Dee	promoted gigs and edited his own fanzine in Brighton, before landing a job at pop bible Smash Hits in 1991. He went on to work for NME, Vox and The Times. Currently his writing can be found in Q, Guardian Guide and The Independent On Sunday review. view articles
	Sam Delaney	is an award winning journalist and broadcaster who writes for The Guardian and has written and presented documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5. His book Get Smashed: The Story Of The Men Who Made The Adverts is published by Sceptre. view articles
	James Delingpole	is the author of three novels about food, sex, drugs and sharks — Fish Show, Fin and Thinly Disguised Autobiography — and writes on TV, books, current affairs, music and life generally for publications including The Spectator, The Times and The Sunday Telegraph. view articles
	Philip Delves Broughton	is the author of What they teach you at Harvard Business School, which he wrote whilst completing his MBA. Previously, he served as the New York and Paris correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. He has also written for The Spectator, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Times. view articles
	Felix Dennis	is the proprietor of The First Post. He made his name in the notorious Oz trial of 1971, when he and the underground magazine’s other co-editors were finally aquitted on appeal after the longest obscenity trial in British legal history. He went on to found his own magazine publishing company in 1973. Today, Dennis Publishing titles include Maxim, Auto Express, Stuff and The Week. In 2002, he published his first collection of poetry, A Glass Half Full, Hutchinson. view articles
	Janine di Giovanni	is an Italian-American journalist based in Paris. She has been a foreign correspondent for 17 years, working mostly in areas of conflict and war. She is a writer for The Times and Vanity Fair and a contributor to the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic. She has won four major awards and written four books, including Madness Visible: A Memoir of War (Bloomsbury). view articles
	John Dodd	is now a freelance journalist after 20 years as a Fleet Street feature writer, foreign correspondent and columnist. view articles
	Christine Doyle	is a health journalist and writer. She started in Fleet Street as health correspondent of The Observer and joined The Daily Telegraph as health editor during the early days of the "health pages". She is a former chairman of the Medical Journalists’ Association.
	Ben du Preez	is a freelance features writer with a particular interest in the Middle East and hybrid animals. He has also written for the Observer and New Statesman. view articles
	Ruth Dudley Edwards	is an historian, journalist and satirical crime novelist. Her non-fiction books include biographies of Patrick Pearse and Victor Gollancz, a portrait of the Orange Order, a history of The Economist and Newspapermen: Cecil King, Hugh Cudlipp and the glory days of Fleet Street. www.ruthdudleyedwards.co.uk view articles
	Lydia Dunn	studied English literature at Reading University. She lives in Hampshire. view articles
E	Michael Economides	is Chairman of the Board of XGAS and Paleon Oil and Gas. He is also a Professor at the Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston. Previously he served as Chief Scientist of the Global Petroleum Research Institute (GPRI). His has written or co-written 14 professional textbooks and books, including The Color Of Oil and From Soviet to Putin and Back. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Energy Tribune. view articles
	David Edwards	is Media Lens co-editor and co-author with David Cromwell of Guardians of Power - The Myth Of The Liberal Media, Pluto Press. He is author of Free to be Human and The Compassionate Revolution, both published by Green Books. view articles
	Tim Edwards	is chief subeditor of The First Post. Previously he was editor for the relaunch of Yahoo! UK’s home page. He has edited and written for various consumer publications and won best B2B title at the APA awards with Vodafone's Business Sense magazine. view articles
	Sarah Edworthy	writes a weekly column for Telegraph Sport. She is also the author of El Macca: Four Years with Real Madrid with Steve McManaman and co-author of The Daily Telegraph Formula One Years. view articles
	Ben Ehrman	graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2004 with a degree in Middle Eastern history. He specialised in Iranian modern history. view articles
	Richard Ehrman	was a government special adviser in the Employment Department and the Northern Ireland Office, during the 1980s. In the 1990s he was chief leader writer of The Daily Telegraph, and is now a consultant director of the think tank Politeia, and on the board of Policy Exchange. He also runs a commercial property company. view articles
	Tom Eilenberg	is a first-year student at the University of York, reading history and politics. view articles
	Will Ellsworth-Jones	is a London-based journalist. He has worked for the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. His book, We Will Not Fight, The Untold Story of World War One’s Conscientious Objectors, is published by Aurum Press. view articles
	Lloyd Evans	is a playwright and the poetry editor of The Spectator. He also contributes to The Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard and Mail on Sunday. Who’ s The Daddy?, the play about love and life at The Spectator which he co-wrote with Toby Young, was followed by their second collaboration, King of Trumps, a farce set in Buckingham Palace.
F	Quentin Falk	is editor of the BAFTA magazine, Academy. He is also the author of books on Graham Greene, Anthony Hopkins, The Rank Organisation, Albert Finney and, imminently, Alfred Hitchcock. view articles
	Duncan Fallowell	is a novelist and travel writer who has worked on many projects with the German group Can. His travel books are To Noto and One Hot Summer in St Petersburg and he has written a volume of short portraits Twentieth Century Characters. His most recent novel is A History of Facelifting. view articles
	Nigel Farndale	is a columnist and feature writer for The Sunday Telegraph. He has won a British Press Award for his interviews and is the author of four books. His biography Haw-Haw was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize.
	Nicholas Farrell	formerly of the London Sunday Telegraph, lives in the Romagna region of Italy from where he edits Le Ragioni dell’Occidente, a monthly current affairs magazine, and writes two weekly columns: Fumo di Londra for the Milan daily Libero; and Zuppa Inglese for La Voce di Romagna. He is the author of Mussolini - A New Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/ Orion). view articles
	Stephen Fay	is a former business editor of The Sunday Times and, more recently, editor of Wisden Cricket Monthly. His book Tom Graveney at Lords was published in October 2005 by Methuen. view articles
	Niall Ferguson	is Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford University and Visiting Professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University. His latest book, War of the World, is published by Allen Lane. view articles
	Frank Field	was Minister for Welfare Reform between May 1997 and July 1998. He was elected to parliament in 1979 as Member for Birkenhead. Frank Field was previously director of the Child Poverty Action Group and of the Low Pay Unit. A former chairman of the Social Security Select Committee, he is the author of numerous works on welfare, low pay and social issues. view articles
	The Fleet Street Collective	is an informal group of newspaper journalists. view articles
	Matt Ford	is a freelance journalist. He was editor of The Big Issue for four years, and has written for The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Time Out. view articles
	Jonathan Foreman	a former corporate lawyer, is now a freelance journalist. Before becoming a feature writer at the Daily Mail, he worked for several years at the New York Post where he served as a film critic, leader writer, columnist and 'embedded' war correspondent. He has also been published in Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. view articles
	Robert Fox	is a writer on western defence issues and Italian current affairs. He has worked for the Corriera della Sera in Milan, covered the Falklands invasion for BBC Radio, and worked as defence correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. His books include The Inner Sea: the Mediterranean and its People, published by Alfred A. Knopf. view articles
	Mary Franklin	is the singer in Pale Young Gentlemen. She has also directed plays, including The Importance of Being Ernest, The Women and The Master and Margarita. view articles
	Lettice Franklin	lives in London. She plays the piano, clarinet and saxophone, and has designed and made skirts.
	Seth Freedman	served for 15 months in a combat unit of the Israeli Defence Force between 2004 and 2006, and has since worked as a writer based in Jerusalem. view articles
	Vicky Frost	is a writer and editor who lives in London. She regularly writes for national newspapers and magazines. view articles
	Frank Furedi	fled to the west with his family in 1956 after the defeat of the Hungarian revolution. A student radical in the Sixties, he was active in the Trotskyist movement in the 70s. A sociologist and author commentating on culture and society, he is now based at the University of Kent in Canterbury. His latest book is Politics of Fear; Beyond Left and Right (Continuum Press). www.frankfuredi.com view articles
G	Jason Gagliardi	is a Bangkok-based advertising executive and journalist who has written for Time, Harper's Bazaar and Colors. He is also a columnist for the South China Morning Post. view articles
	David Gale	is a playwright and theatre director. His new play Vanity Play will open in London in Spring 2007. He has written on arts, technoculture and hysterical behaviour for The Observer, The Guardian, The Independent and GQ amongst others. He lives in London. view articles
	Tom Gallagher	teaches at the Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University. Many of his books examine religious and nationalist violence in Europe and efforts to overcome it. His latest is Theft of a Nation: Romania since Communism (Hurst & Co, London 2005). view articles
	Claude Garamond	designed the typeface for The First Post's masthead. A typographer and publisher, based in Paris, his work has been described as "among the most finished specimens of typography that exist". He died in 1561.
	Anthony Gardner	is editor of the Royal Society of Literature’s magazine RSL. He also writes features for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times Magazine, travel articles for The Sunday Telegraph and book reviews for the Mail on Sunday. He was formerly deputy editor of Harpers & Queen.
	Daisy Garnett	is a freelance writer living in London. Her work has appeared in Vogue, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, New York Times Magazine, The Observer, Harpers Bazaar and New York Magazine.
	Anne Garvey	has written for The Times, The Independent and YOU magazine. She lives in Cambridge, where she is working on her first novel. view articles
	Bhaskar Gautam	writes from India on the arts, sociology and current affairs for publications in Japan, South Korea and the US. He teaches visual arts and communication skills to post-graduate students. view articles
	George	who draws Downings, has been an illustrator for TV Times since 1999 and has also worked for The Economist, Rory Bremner, and Delia Smith. His gallery is at www.caricatures-uk.com. view articles
	Getty Images	is a picture library that provides photographs to The First Post. It has offices worldwide, in North America, Europe and Asia. view articles
	John Gibb	writes about golf for the Financial Times. In his time he has played with Sam Snead, Peter Thompson and Lord Lucan. He was a crime writer on the Evening Standard for many years and contributed to the Erotic Review. view articles
	Andrew Gilligan	is defence and diplomatic editor of The Spectator and writes for the Evening Standard. He was the defence correspondent on The Sunday Telegraph from 1994 - 1999, and for the BBC’ s Today programme from 1999 - 2004. He is a regular contributor to Channel 4’ s Dispatches. view articles
	Charles Glass	has been covering the Middle East since 1973. His two most recent books on the area are The Tribes Triumphant (Harper Collins) and The Northern Front: An Iraq War Diary (Saqi Books). view articles
	Peter Glover	is a British political and energy journalist. He is a contributing editor at Energy Tribune magazine. view articles
	Henning Gloystein	is a British/German freelance journalist based in London. His articles have been published in Britain, Colombia and Germany. He has written two books about Colombia, Globalista and Three Borders. view articles
	Rowena Goldman	is a television executive and writer. She currently works for the BBC developing and producing interactive projects, including The Dark House, a drama for BBC 4. She has contributed to Time Out, The Scotsman and Evening Standard and is the author of The Mediterranean Health Diet.
	Lauren Goldstein Crowe	has written for numerous magazines, including Time, Fortune and French Vogue. She created the I Date Models for Money column on the now defunct Style Channel website. She is writing a book about the luxury shoe business for Bloomsbury publishers. view articles
	John Goodbody	was Sports News Correspondent of The Times 1986-2007 and has covered the last 10 Summer Olympic Games. He was voted Sports Reporter of the Year in 2001 and won the Sports Story of the Year in 2002.
	Barry Goodman	has been a marketing, retail, design and general business consultant in the UK and Australia. He also writes comedy scripts.
	Christopher Goodwin	is based in Venice and Los Angeles, from where he has written about the film industry for the The Times and The Sunday Times. view articles
	Bryony Gordon	is a feature writer on the The Daily Telegraph.
	Robert Gore-Langton	is a former theatre critic for The Daily Telegraph and Daily Express. He is now a freelance writer on the arts for The Times and The Sunday Telegraph and on rural life for the Field. view articles
	Joy Gosney	is a freelance illustrator who lives and works in Brighton. She illustrates pieces on travel, current affairs, health and beauty, fashion and food as well as children’s books. Visit www.joygosney.co.uk.
	Alastair Graham	is an illustrator who created the characters for Sturm and Drang. His books include Full Moon Soup and Impressions, a folio of jazz drawings (www.jazzfolio.com). He has also worked in animated film on Katya and the Nutcracker, and more recently, the music video Suba.
	Marisol Grandon	has written arts and travel pieces for icon, Time Out, RES and Dazed and Confused. She is half-Chilean, half-British. view articles
	Kristian Gravenor	is a Montreal-based journalist who visited Azerbaijan last year. view articles
	Danny Graydon	is a freelance journalist, specialising in film and graphic novels. He currently contributes to Empire, Variety Weekly, SFX and Sci-Fi Now and is the co-author of The Rough Guide to Film Noir. view articles
	Jonathon Green	is Britain's leading lexicographer of slang and broadcasts on the subject regularly. He has also compiled dictionaries of quotations and edited three oral histories, the best-known being Days In The Life, on London's hippie sixties. His Chambers Dictionary of Slang will be published in October. view articles
	Jonathan Gregson	is editor of FIRST Magazine and writes on finance for The Wall Street Journal, Global Finance and Fortune Magazine. He is the author of several books on South Asia including Kingdoms Beyond the Clouds and Blood Against the Snows: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty.
	Oscar Grillo	is an illustrator. Born in Buenos Aires in 1943, he moved to England in 1971 and has worked as an animator, books illustrator, designer and also had several exhibitions as a painter. Since 2002 he has been sending a daily drawn email to an audience of six hundred friends. His illustrations can be seen in Sin City, the tales of an inner-city copper.
	Viv Groskop	is a London-based freelance writer whose work appears in The Observer, Guardian and Russian Vogue. view articles
	John Gross	has written books including Shylock: a Legend and its Legacy and an anthology, After Shakespeare. He was editor of the The Times Literary Supplement from 1973 to 1981, and theatre critic of The Sunday Telegraph from 1989 to 2005. view articles
	Sheila Gunn	was press spokesman for John Major and a political correspondent of the Times. She is a visiting lecturer at City University's Department of Journalism. view articles
	Rahila Gupta	is a campaigner and writer whose new book Enslaved: The New British Slavery will be published in September 2007. She co-scripted the feature film Provoked, she has written radio drama and is currently an RLF (Royal Literary Fund) writing fellow, based at Queen Mary College, University of London. view articles
	Dan Guthrie	was a columnist and copy editor for the Grants Pass Daily Courier until September 2001. He lives in Oregon and has taught biology, writing and journalism courses at various US universities. view articles
H	Anthony Haden-Guest	writes a Saturday column about the art world for the Financial Times. Born in Paris, he grew up in London and lives there and in New York. He won a New York Emmy for writing and narrating a program about the coming of Eurotrash. His most recent books were True Colours: The Real Life of the Art World (Grove Atlantic); The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night (Morrow) and The Chronicles of Now, a book of cartoons (Allworth). view articles
	Elaine Hake	is a former assistant editor of The First Post. She previously worked as an English teacher in Fukuoka, Japan and wrote for The Telegraph. She is now a fundraiser for Refuge, a domestic violence charity. view articles
	William Hall	is a freelance business journalist based in Manchester. He spent more than 30 years with the Financial Times in various roles, including editing the Lex column. He also writes for Financial World and the Banker. view articles
	Deborah Hands	lives in Norfolk. Formerly a military fitness instructor, she now writes about health, mainly for the Canadian market. Her first book will be published shortly. view articles
	Alex Hannaford	based in London, has written for the Evening Standard, The Guardian, South China Morning Post and the Austin American Statesman, among others. view articles
	Daniel Hannan MEP	was elected a Conservative MEP for South East England in 1999. As well as being a leader-writer on The Daily Telegraph he writes columns for The Sunday Telegraph and the German daily, Die Welt. He speaks French and Spanish. view articles
	Whitney Haring-Smith	is a 2007 Rhodes Scholar from Pennsylvania. He works as a political risk analyst for Eurasia Group in London and has experience in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
	Olivia Harris	former assistant editor of The First Post. Previously she was a production assistant for BBC Science and spent 2004 - 2005 working and travelling in Africa. view articles
	Andrew Harrison	is an NHS Accident and Emergency doctor, who has also worked in intensive care and cardiology. Before studying medicine he worked as a computer analyst in a merchant bank. view articles
	Aidan Hartley	was born in Nairobi, and was Reuters’ Africa correspondent throughout the 1990s, covering the Rwandan genocide, Ethiopian famine and Somalian civil war. He is the author of The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. view articles
	Jonathan Harwood	is a subeditor at The First Post. He has edited and written for national and local newspapers and consumer publications in the UK. He also spent several years working as a journalist and occasional fisherman in the South Pacific. view articles
	Ronald Harwood	is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. His films include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Dresser, The Pianist, for which he won an Oscar, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. He was awarded a CBE in 1999. Collaboration and Taking Sides, two of Harwood’s plays about musicians and Nazi Germany, are at Chichester Festival Theatre until August 30, 2008. view articles
	Tom Heap	is a presenter of environment and animal documentaries, who appears on radio, Panorama and the BBC daytime show Animal 24:7. He has worked on the BBC staff for many years, starting out on the Today Programme and ending up as Rural Affairs Correspondent. view articles